Statement-delivery mechanism for meters.



ATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

R. W. GALLZiGHER $TATEMENT DELIVERY MEGHANISM FUR METERS APPLICATION FILELE JULY 25. 19091 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1,

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a an TP t m mm mw m 3 i i @4 i N M No. 825,451. PATENTED JULY 10, 1996 R. W. GALLAGHER. STATEMEEQT DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR METERS.

AlPLIGATIOK FILED JULY 25.1905.

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i A) in! uvenht UNITED STITATES PA'TITENT OFFICE.

RICHARD WILLIAM GALLAGHER, OF SAN FliJllNCiSUO, GAIJFORNIA,

ASSIGIQOR TO AUTOMATIC METER if}, (1?? SA? FRANCXSCU, CALI FORNIA, CORPORAIION OF CALlFfi i-ii' lnm -STATEME'.NT-DELIVERY MEGHfiNEiEYfi FQH METERS.

Patented July 10, 1906.

Applicant-inn filed July 2 151 35. Serial 1% 254,34?-

To (215 whom at may 603M155??? Be 11; knewn that I Rwmum WnJLIAM GALLAGHER, a citizen m the lnited Stat-es,

residing at Sa-nFreneisco, in the county at San Frenelsco and State of California, have invented eertaln new and useful. imprevemenfis in Statement-DeliveryMeehenisrn in;

' apparatus by means of which statements the amount of may be obtained at any time-in duplicate er triplicate 0111'1 greater numbers, if dGSiI'Qd, of

consumed.

An es eeiel object of the invention is to previde a eiriee of thifs character winch can be readily attached to meters already muse with tion of the statement-delivery mechanism.

Fig. 4 is a front View of a; portion of one 0f the record-strips. Fig. 5 is e perepective View of the up er portion 0f the meter, the. cover of th'e d e artery mechanism bein open. Fig. 6 is a broken frent elev etion'e the 11.11pm" por- 'ti'on 16f the elivery mechanism.-

Referriri "jethedrawings, '1 represents gesdneter r afing a seriesof indicating-dials 12.:neshingzwith the gear-wheel 3. On the 'ehaft4ef v whih carriee-on'its shaft 2. 'beveLgeer e hundreds-dial 5 is a gear-wheel: 6,

mes'hi with'bevel-geer 8 upen the shaft 9 cafe-rel er 10, said shaft hevin bear-in in a frame-'11, secured to thefeee o the me er. 12 is another shaft, its bearings in said frame end carrying an idle roller 13, which Betweeneaid r0 ere 0 end-13 mane-sheets lgof which there :are ere shown threeiin number. These sheets revolves in close roxirnity tortlre-rol er 10. ans state are drawn .The shnftem andjiTof therollers I3 and ames' li-anil l6 and ga s, electricity, or uther'fiuid being held in said, TPLtw'sSQ-S by 1?. It 7 will lee seen that with we eenstruetien when the meier ie in. operation the roller 1'0 is rerel-red rherefiy fevelving else the rnller 13, end in Grier tn meme thlS movement, a! the @We :willers'in' unison the roller has pins 21,

whieiiem'er the surface ef lire lewerreiier 13; By fine ineans all the thme statement sheets are pe ed between. said rollers 511 exeei prope'rion to the amount of gas eonsumed. By

two sheets 14, e. tearing-strip of metal secured on the frame 11 being prer'lded to em able this more neeuratel y' and eenr'eniently m be done. The third sheet; may be left in the {aiming for futtzre inepeetien 3y a general inspect-er mail will nerve as a shed; er: telly on the other sheets. Theiee sheets may be ruled or marked in any deeir'ed manner which will conveniently repreeent the amount of gas consumed by the length of the sheet tern 6%. For instance parellel diagonal lines at, suitable regnler intervals may be ruled upon the sheens, We line re resenting the con sun's .tnn sf 2 tl'umseml set of gas and each line Deing (E'Vidlflt0 tene ual spaces torepresent hnndreds feel; a? piece e? the 31mm paper tern of? will at once shew new many feet of gas have been ean-r sumed nainy, a tthousand feet fur eve-r) cemplete diagunal line thereon, and ene hum tired feeffur each space in the two fractional end lines end by adding these together and its the theusa-nde for the number of diagonal linee en the paper theammmt 01? as can smiled can be at once seen. InBig. 4 is gas. Time the shnwnene ef said pieces tern eff to reeerd the emennt of gas consumed, having thereon three wholediagonal lines, each re resenting fihe eunsumptmn of one ifhnusand eet 01 gas, and twn fractional terminal lines, each 61 which in this case eeniieins approz inmtelv five of the fen e( 1min aces into whieheae diegenailine is wide said fractional lines thus together representing the eensumptien of mine thou sejzni fee, makin' a tote! of four thousand feet re resente b tlus record. If the paperhad een tern 0 so as 5; to eut one of the diagenel lines two spaces from its end, and the other diagonal lines six spaces from its end then the record would represent a consumption of three thousand eight hundred feet of gas. ()f the two sheets torn oil the meter inspector will turn in one j at the oilice and will retain one himself as a check, which may be used by him to compare with that taken at the next inspection of i he meter.

I claim- 1. In combination with the casing and indicating-dials of a meter, a pair of rollers, bearings for the shafts for said rollers supported upon said casing, an operative connection between one of said shafts and anindicating-dial, a feed-roller having a roll of paper thereon arranged to be passed between said pair of rollers, bearings for the shaft ofsaid feed-roller supported upon said meter-easing,

and a casing movably secured to said metercasing and arranged in one position to inelose all of said rollers, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a horizontal series of indicating-dials of a meter, and the casing for said meter, a pair o horizontal rollers arrangedb'eneath the indie- .ing-dials, bearings for the shafts of said rollers supported upon 3 sald meter-casing, an operative connection between one of said shafts and one of the indicating-dials, a plurality of horizontal feedl rollers beneath the pair of rollers, bearings for the shafts of said feed-rollers supported on the meter-easing, and a casing movably sei cured to the meter-easing and arranged in one position to inelosc all of said rollers and said operative connection, substantially as deseri bed.

3. In combination with. the casing and in- (Heating-dials of a meter, a pair of rollers, i bearings for the shaft for said rollers supported upon said casing, an operative connection between. one of said shafts and an indicating-dial, a feed-roller having a roll of paper thereon arranged to be passed between said pair of rollers, bearings for the shaft of said feed-roller supported upon said metereasing, a tearing-strip for tearing off the part of the sheet fed forward between the pair of rollers, said sheet being marked to indicate the amount of advance, and a casing movl ably secured to said meter-easing and arranged in. one position to inclose all of said l rollers, substantially as described. l

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wit-- nesses.

I RICHARD WILLIAM GALLAGHER.

l l Vitnesses:

l M. FEEHAN, F F. M. WRIGHT. 

